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2025-03-08 23:52:45 GMT

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This isn't tribal politics - this is just members of your family being given to act like assholes.

2025-03-04 01:32:20 GMT

I think European leaders should go directly to Putin with their demands to end the war. Don't bother coming to trump - he's on Putin's side.
Paul Krugman has a decent piece up right now on this: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-up-to-europe-now
#SlaviUkraini
#FuckTrump

2025-03-01 20:59:17 GMT

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100% accurate. We have fertile soil for fascism. Too many of us Americans are blind due to American exceptionalism, thinking that we're special.
TLDR: We're not. We've been indoctrinated by our school system into only seeing positive things we've done and have treated all the bad things (stealing land, slavery, genocide, etc.) as aberrations.
The irony, is that this mentality of 'exceptionalism' is probably true of every country.

2025-03-01 20:15:57 GMT

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As tempting as that is as a thought experiment, it would have torn this country apart.
The problem is, Americans walked into this with their eyes wide open.
Slightly more than half chose poorly and we're all paying for it.
Anyone who didn't vote in the election cast their vote for trump.

2025-03-01 19:10:03 GMT

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If we want to start pointing fingers for the disastrous state we’re in, we can start with Dems who stayed home, white people who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a qualified black woman, and Biden who didn’t know what time it was.
At the time, I resented the gaslighting of Team Biden, but focused on getting behind a winning candidate. But if Team Biden wants to try and airbrush their culpability in our current situation and turn Biden’s legacy to shit, then have at it.
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2025-03-01 19:07:41 GMT

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Yes, their gaslighting is dwarfed a hundred-fold by a the candidate who defeated Biden, but it does not make it any less infuriating.
If they want to go back and revisit Biden’s failure, we then we can go back to the failure of Team Biden to tell him he had done an amazing job in rescuing the country from the brink of disaster, it was time to step down for some newer blood.
Instead, he surrounded himself with sycophants who failed to tell him he’d lost a step and should not run again.
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2025-03-01 19:05:16 GMT

Un-fucking-believable levels of delusion from Team Biden:
"Mike Donilon, one of Biden’s most trusted advisers, said earlier this month that Biden would have still been the “best” even after his disastrous debate performance.
“Lots of people have terrible debates,” he said at a Harvard event. “Usually, the party doesn’t lose its mind. But that’s what happened — it just melted down.”
Posted on TalkingPointsMemo.com by Kate Riga.
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2025-02-28 19:57:37 GMT

Current mood.
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2025-02-21 15:03:00 GMT

This made me literally laugh out loud.
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2025-02-17 21:19:09 GMT

We had about 60 people show up in 10 degree temperatures in our small city just outside Chicago.
I finally came up with a poster!
#Resist
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2025-02-15 19:48:54 GMT

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It's extortion on a grand scale.
Remember when the Fetid Yam was impeached for withholding congressionally-mandated aid for Ukraine? Good times.

2025-01-31 23:45:39 GMT

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Hell, you don't even have to be president to wreck a country's shit.
Just ask Elon about this one weird trick... (it only works if you've got $250,000,000 lying around).

2025-01-30 23:27:50 GMT

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Tim Cook is a sellout. Hope he's happy.

2025-01-22 02:44:16 GMT

I am an Ally.
There are many of us out there.
Please don't lose heart. There are many who will fight for you and stand by you.
#lgbttq
#ally
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2025-01-20 15:41:02 GMT

For Today's #OneGoodThing, I am posting this cover of Tom Wait's Telephone Call from Istanbul that I found fucking delightful and which made me happy.
If there's something that makes you forget the shitshow of today, please post!
#EarlyRedElvises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuMmTVe6NX4

2025-01-19 22:14:46 GMT

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it will be interesting to see how long this bubble lasts and who is left holding the bag.

2025-01-19 16:25:22 GMT

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The fact that the First Felon has very bigly indicated that he's up for sale and will use his powers to enrich himself has not seem to see the light of day with our current corporate news media.

2025-01-15 22:38:28 GMT

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Why isn't Biden preemptively pardoning anyone on the First Felon's hit list or just unilaterally releasing Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago report?
He ran his campaign on the premise of the First Felon being a threat to democracy and is now acting like this is a normal transition.
Biden is the head of the Democratic party. He needs to fricking act like it.

2025-01-12 17:54:09 GMT

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Wait, you can't? That's not what they told me back in seminary school! 😅

2025-01-12 17:46:45 GMT

And a grand goodbye to Anita Bryant, noted anti LGBTQ+ bigot.
A reminder to live your life in such a way that people don't rejoice when you shuffle off this mortal coil...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17GLX53ZCaI
#AnitaBryant

2024-12-26 18:33:51 GMT

A garbage truck hauling garbage—how meta!
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2024-12-26 01:04:02 GMT

Brilliant. As always.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9lcBkGbxvtY?feature=share
#ElleCordoba

2024-12-20 15:35:57 GMT

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EU Commission: Can you come over and run our country?
Signed,
Sane Citizens of the United States

2024-12-15 16:43:08 GMT

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Have at thine baseless villain!
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2024-12-15 16:38:48 GMT

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Russia, if you're listening:
go fuck yourself.

2024-12-04 01:13:48 GMT

This is Kash Patel's enemies list. Kash Patel is the First Felon's candidate to head the FBI. It's Appendix B from his book (I too am surprised he could read).
Joe Biden needs to issue a blanket pardon of everyone on the list, including repubs who served under the First Felon, because in the vernacular of my Chicago upbringing, the First Felon and Kash Patel 'won't know whether to shit or go blind.'
It will also make a mockery of any pardons the First Felon plans on making.
#PardonThemAll
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2024-11-30 15:13:16 GMT

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You can read this without giving a dime to the NYT: https://archive.ph/0O64r

2024-11-21 23:16:00 GMT

Happy, I-quit-my-job-and-didn't-get-the-better-job Matt Gaetz day for all who celebrate!

2024-11-16 18:30:12 GMT

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Well, the Lord does work in mysterious ways...

2024-11-11 15:16:47 GMT

We're going to see a lot of stories about people who voted for the orange shit having it come back to bite them.
These stories gain traction due to Schadenfreude, irony, and being clickbait for corporate media.
As much as it might give readers a sense of vindication, it still ends up with someone being unjustly punished.
Many are from marginalized folks and it strikes me as punching down.
Not engaging with these stories, and resisting the urge to feel smug is part of being the Resistance.

2024-11-09 03:02:15 GMT

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Now is a good time to boycott corporate-owned news.

2024-11-02 23:48:49 GMT

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Only cowards are threatened by LGBTQ folks.
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2024-10-21 00:44:56 GMT

I'm going to say it - Vice-President Kamala Harris has thus far run a near perfect campaign. She has put together a great team and has a great ground game (us!).
She's poised, assertive, thinks quickly on her feet, and is still finding another gear.
Let's work extra hard to make sure she finishes strong—finish those postcards and letters, make those calls, and get folks to the polls!
#GetOutTheVote
#VoteBlue
#HarrisWalz

2024-10-13 16:52:27 GMT

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This is why it doesn't matter how much value Twitter has lost since Melon Musk bought it - it was never to be a money-maker - just a way to control dissent of wealthy oligarchs.
It's working exactly as intended.

2024-09-11 23:58:09 GMT

Just leaving this here...
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2024-09-11 03:17:57 GMT

Pitch perfect. Today's Pearls before Swine by Stephan Pastis...
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2024-09-09 00:31:45 GMT

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While I appreciate the intent of these articles, I think that continuing the 'oldest candidate to run for president' theme is the same ageism that Biden faced from the media.
It's not the age of the person, it's the quality of thinking, the ideas they're promoting, that the press should be covering.
Is it valid to talk about incoherency? Yes, but don't forget all the horrid racism, bigotry, misogyny, and misanthropy trump lives and breathes.

2024-08-07 22:22:39 GMT

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I dunno - Doom Patrol is pretty damn dark! Funny that X-Men is basically a less wacky cover of Doom Patrol.

2024-08-07 22:16:42 GMT

My regular reminder, that if you're not watching The Umbrella Academy (Fourth and Final Season drops tomorrow on Netflix), you're missing such a well-written show, deeply rooted in characters.
Think of it as an even more dysfunctional X-Men. But really fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DAmWHxeoKw

2024-08-06 22:22:06 GMT

A friend of mine was telling me about how MAGA ruins everything—including the Olympics.
Of course they're ruining the joy of everything—they're inherently unhappy people. It will be a great contrast of seeing candidates who smile and laugh versus those who scowl and smirk.
Being MAGA Means Never Having to Say "I'm Happy".
#VoteBlue
#harriswalz2024
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2024-07-08 23:11:50 GMT

Came across this in my photo timeline. This was take at Belvedere Castle in Vienna. We traveled there on our 25th anniversary 6 years ago.
Pro tip: Do not take your kids to Europe until they're at least in their 20s.
#GustavKlimt
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